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Starting in the late 18th century a development is observable in which a new theatrical aesthetic of dramatic speech exploiting the musical potential of the voice went hand in hand …
Literary studies and stage practitioners alike frequently display a certain bafflement in the face of contemporary stage-plays. The relation between text and theatre has undergone …
With his research on actors' potential for expression via corporeality, Etienne Decroux (1898-1991) provided an important impetus to 20th century theatrical practice that was taken …
The Potsdam performance of Sophocles' -Antigone- in 1841 was an event of historic significance tantamount to a renaissance of Greek tragedy in the German theatre. In terms of the …
Franz Lehar (1870-1948), 'the composer most frequently performed within his own lifetime', still represents an unresolved dilemma for the historiography of music. In terms of …
Today, the Olympic Games, designed by their founder Pierre de Coubertin as a modern civil religion, appeal to the masses as a celebration of bodies in motion, as the greatest media …
In the period of Weimar Classicism Goethe did not only write a number of plays which to the present day have retained their place in the canon of 'classical' literature forming …
Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) was the first German director to display an explicit commitment to political theatre. As of 1919 he was in charge of the biggest theatre in the Weimar …
In the last ten years, George Tabori (* 1914) has been one of the dramatic authors most frequently performed this century in Germany and also one of the most sought-after directors …